Fastener for partition-walls of boxes.



E1 SCHULTZ.

FASTENER FOR PARTITION WALLS 0F BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED APR 13 1914 Patented May 16, 1916'.

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EDWARD SCHULTZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO I-I. SCHULTZ & COL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

FASTENER FOR PARTITION-WALLS OF BOXES. r

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented play 16 1916.

Application filed April 13, 1914. Serial No. 831,488.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD SCHULTZ, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Partition-IValls of Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel device for partition walls in boxes and is particularly adapted for use in connection with paper boxes, and consists in the features of construction and combinations of part-s hereinafter fully described and particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention: Figure 1 is a fragmentary transverse sectional View of a box equipped with a partition wall secured therein by means of fastening devices embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary detail top plan view showing the wall of the box and the partition wall secured by means of my said device. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view in elevation of the exterior of a box equipped with a partition wall secured by means of my device. Fig. l is a plan view of the blank which when formed constitutes the fastening device embodying my invention. Fig. -5 is a detail perspective view of a fastening device embodying the invention. Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5- showing a modified form of construction.

In the construction of paper boxes having partition walls the partition walls readily become loose and it has been found relatively difficult to so construct boxes of this character as to provide sutiicient strength in the joint between the partition wall and the walls of the box to prevent the former from becoming disengaged from the latter. Boxes of this character are used largely in the trade and especially by woolen merchants for carrying and shipping swatches of samples. The swatches are relatively heavy and are projected against the partition; walls, more or less, during the handling of the boxes thereby causing strains on the partition walls whereby the latter readily become loose.

The object of my invention is to provide a very simple, cheap and eflicient fastener whereby such partition walls may be readily and very firmly secured to the walls of the boxes and retained permanently in place.

The device is made of thin sheet metal, such as tin plate or the like, and comprises a single piece of such metal having a main portion U-shaped in section and comprising the middle portion A and the parallel flanges B. Each of said flanges is provided with a perforation 0 through which a rivet may be driven. At one end of each of said flanges B is a flange D disposed perpendicular thereto and which is adapted to engage a side wall of the box, each of said flanges being provided at its outer end with a tongue E extending perpendicularly thereto and parallel with the flanges B: said tongue E being adapted to pass through slots in the walls of the box and their projecting ends bent over or clenched upon the outer faces of such walls to firmly secure the fastening device to the latter.

The partition wall F of the box G is received between the flanges B at the corners of said wall and preferably secured therein by means of the rivets I-I passing through said perforations C. The said partition wall is then placed in proper position in the box, the walls of which have been previously slotted at the proper points for the passage of the tongues E, and the latter after being inserted through said slots are then bent over or clenched to engage the wall of the box between the bent-over ends thereof and the flanges D. The partition wall is thus very securely and permanently held within the box as will be obvious.

It will be apparent, of course, that thefastening device secured upon the partition wall contiguous to the bottom thereof, may be so disposed that the tongues E thereof pass through slots in the bottom wall instead of a side or end wall, and further that said fastening device may be used at only two instead of four corners of the partition wall.

In Fig. 6- I have shown a modified form of construction in which the flanges D are omitted, the tongues E being extensions of the flanges B and adapted to be bent over outwardly when mounted in the box.

The device is very simple and eflicient,

and very easily and quickly mounted and secured.

I claim as my invention:

The combination with a boX having a wall equipped with a pair of slots, and a partition housed by said box and presenting an edge intermediate said slots, of a fastener having parallel flanges straddling said edge of the partition, each of said flanges equipped with a tongue passing through one of said slots and having its tip bent over on the outer face of said wall, said fastener having shoulders bearing against the inner face of the wall, whereby adjacent wall portions are clamped between the said sh0u1- ders and said tips, said flanges provided with perforations, and a fastening device passing through said perforations and the straddled partition for preventing bulging of the wall away from the end of said .partition.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDWARD SCHULTZ. WVitnesses ALBERT SCHEIBLE, M. M. BOYLE.

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